Workday Integration Specialist and Architect

Lakshman Gonuguntla

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Summary

Workday Integration and Reporting Consultant with 3+ years of experience building and stabilizing integrations across fast-moving product and enterprise environments. Design Workday Studio and WIC solutions that handle real-time HCM and compensation events, often resolving schema mismatches, downstream dependencies, and UAT data inconsistencies. Combine XSLT transformations, REST/SOAP APIs, and OAuth security to deliver reliable data exchange. Leverage AWS, Boomi, and Azure to orchestrate scalable pipelines while managing tenant releases, audit requirements, and production issues across complex Workday ecosystems. Skills

Integration Architecture & Design: Workday Studio, Workday Integration Cloud (WIC), complex EIB frameworks, Core Connectors, REST & SOAP services, OAuth 2.0, XSLT transformations, XML/JSON payloads, event-driven integrations, reusable integration patterns, fault-tolerant design

HCM & Compensation Domain Expertise: Core HCM lifecycle events (hire, transfer, termination), compensation configuration alignment, merit cycles, bonus processing, stock & equity integrations, eligibility rules, job architecture, supervisory organizations, position management, organizational hierarchy dependencies Programming & Automation Engineering: Python, Java, Groovy, Shell scripting, Workday Extend, automation frameworks, data validation logic, transformation pipelines, job scheduling, integration testing utilities, configuration versioning Cloud & Middleware Platforms: MuleSoft, Dell Boomi, AWS (Lambda, SQS, SNS), Azure Integration Services, API Gateway, message orchestration, asynchronous processing, scalable and high-availability integration design Security, Risk & Compliance: Workday security framework, business process security, role-based access control, segregation of duties, SOX compliance, audit traceability, PII protection, encryption standards, secure data transmission Delivery, Reliability & Operations: CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, tenant management (sandbox, UAT, production), release governance, regression testing coordination, production monitoring, incident management, SLA ownership Professional Experience

Workday Reporting & Integration Consultant, Roku Jan 2025 - Present Remote, USA

Architect Workday Studio integrations for hire, transfer, and compensation events, enabling near real-time propagation into downstream finance and analytics systems supporting over 8,000 employees across distributed global business units.

Engineer event-driven integrations using Workday Integration Cloud with AWS Lambda and SQS, reducing lifecycle transaction delays from hours to under 10 minutes despite intermittent downstream service throttling constraints.

Design XSLT transformation layers standardizing XML and JSON payloads across internal services, resolving recurring schema mismatches identified during UAT and improving data consistency across rapidly evolving downstream applications.

Develop advanced Workday reports and calculated fields supporting compensation cycles, improving validation turnaround time by approximately 20% while handling frequent organizational changes and late-stage data corrections during audits.

Implement REST-based Workday integrations using OAuth 2.0, ensuring secure PII transmission and consistent identity mapping across services while addressing edge cases involving inactive worker records and retroactive updates.

Manage CI/CD-based deployments across Workday tenants, coordinating release sequencing with engineering teams and reducing post-production integration defects by 15% in high-frequency product release environments. Workday Integration Developer, Tech Mahindra Jun 2021 - Jul 2023 HYD, India

Develop and maintain Workday EIB and Core Connector integrations supporting hire-to-retire processes across enterprise clients with over 12,000 employees, handling country-specific compliance and data variation requirements.

Build Dell Boomi-based integrations using SOAP services to synchronize Workday with legacy ERP systems, reducing data latency from several hours to under 30 minutes across complex multi-system enterprise landscapes.

Develop Groovy and Java utilities for integration validation and transformation, improving defect detection during UAT cycles and reducing manual testing effort by approximately 25% across multiple client implementations.

Configure Workday business processes, compensation eligibility rules, and approval chains, ensuring accurate merit and bonus cycles while resolving frequent issues related to job architecture misalignment and supervisory hierarchy changes.

Implement secure data exchange using encryption and role-based access controls, reducing audit findings related to sensitive HR data exposure by nearly 30% during internal and external compliance assessments.

Design and deploy integrations using Azure Integration Services, handling batch-heavy workloads and improving processing stability during peak payroll and compensation processing windows for enterprise clients.

Support production monitoring and incident resolution across multiple tenants, reducing average issue resolution time from 6 hours to approximately 3.5 hours while managing recurring integration failures and data dependency issues. Education

Master of Science, Indiana Institute of Technology Aug 2023 - May 2025 IN, USA Information Systems

Bachelor of Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Jun 2018 - May 2022 AP, India Computer science and Engineering

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